This trim, intense actor is best-known for his role as John Merrick in Broadway's "The Elephant Man" (1979), a show he also co-produced. Anglim began acting at Yale, then branched out to stock and regional theater. He spent a year in the Southbury (Connecticut) Playhouse, before appearing in such shows as "What the Butler Saw" and "The Contrast" (both in Cincinnati, 1975) and "Snow White" (New York, 1976). Anglim also had a bit part in the TV-movie, "Muhammed", in which "my camel spit at me". But Anglim was still largely unknown when he optioned the London play about the deformed 19th-century "The Elephant Man". It debuted off-Broadway at St. Peter's Church before moving to The Booth Theater on Broadway in 1979.

This trim, intense actor is best-known for his role as John Merrick in Broadway's "The Elephant Man" (1979), a show he also co-produced. Anglim began acting at Yale, then branched out to stock and regional theater. He spent a year in the Southbury (Connecticut) Playhouse, before appearing in such shows as "What the Butler Saw" and "The Contrast" (both in Cincinnati, 1975) and "Snow White" (New York, 1976). Anglim also had a bit part in the TV-movie, "Muhammed", in which "my camel spit at me". But Anglim was still largely unknown when he optioned the London play about the deformed 19th-century "The Elephant Man". It debuted off-Broadway at St. Peter's Church before moving to The Booth Theater on Broadway in 1979.

Education

Yale University:
New Haven , Connecticut - 1973

Notes

Anglim thought the movie version of "The Elephant Man" was "tasteless and ghoulish, totally the opposite of what our play was about. We talked of the beauty of ugliness." --Philip Anglim quoted in New York Post, January 10, 1981.

"Actors who get caught up in their characters are unprofessional, have psychological problems and are diluting their creative energy." --Angilm to GQ, May 1981.